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the action taken by said County Commissioners shall be entered

on the minutes of the board. This estimate or programme
when approved by the County Commissioners shall be open for
inspection during office hours of the clerk to the Board of
County Commissioners.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-

diate preservation of the public health and safety, and the same
being passed upon a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly, shall take effect upon the date of its passage.

Approved April 13th, 1922.

CHAPTER 281.

AN ACT to amend the Constitution of Maryland by adding a

new section to Article 4.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, three-fifths of all the members of both Houses concurring.
That the following section be and the same is hereby proposed
as an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Maryland,
and if adopted by the legal and qualified voters thereof, as
hereinafter provided, the same shall stand as an additional
section to Article 4 of said Constitution, to follow Section 31,
and to be known as Section 31A.

31A. In addition to the authority granted to the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore by the preceding section to pay
to each of the Judges of the Supreme Bench the annual sum of
five hundred dollars, authority is hereby given to said Mayor
and City Council to pay to each of said Judges such further
annual sum as an addition to their respective salaries as the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall from time to time
deem right and proper, provided, that any such sum being once
granted shall not be diminished during the continuance of said
Judges in office.

SEC. 2. And be U further enacted, by the authority afore-
said, That the said foregoing section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution shall be, at the next general
election for members of the General Assembly to be held in
this State, submitted to the legal and qualified voters thereof,